Is Breaking Away actually good?

Breaking Away sits in the 91.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 91.5% of them.

How does Breaking Away compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Breaking Away lands in the 89.8% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Breaking Away's score based on?

107 calibrated reviewers stand behind Breaking Away's score.

1979

global pct

91.5

Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s

Breaking Away

Name: Breaking Away
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Released: 1979

Scored from 107 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

91.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

98.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

107 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Breaking Away (1979) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and sport genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 546 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 107 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 114 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Breaking Away (1979) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 107
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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